The New York Times today reported that the NSA has created "back doors" into Huawei's telecommunications networks for the purpose of collecting information on networking hardware.

The NSA also monitored communications of the company's executives and also searched for links between Huawei and the People's Liberation Army. NSA also wanted to have access to computer and telephone networking equipment that Huawei was selling to other countries so that it could monitor and search through both computer and telephone networks, the report added, citing documents obtained by The New York Times and Der Spiegel from Edward Snowden.